Barrel-hoop.



E. F. BEUGLER.

BARREL HOOP.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 29. m5.

Patentefl Nov. 7, 1916.

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EDWIN F. BEUGLER, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGI Q'OIB, TO E. &'B. HOLMES MACHINEBY (JOIMIAFI'Y, F BUFFALO, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. EDWIN F. BEUGLER, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo. in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented new and useful Im provements in Barrel-Hoops, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a barrel hoop which is made of sheet metal and has for its object to provide simple, eflicient and inexpensive means for connecting the ends of the hoop without the use of separate rivets or the like so that the joint between these ends will not open or pull apart under the severest strains to which the same is liable to be subjected while being applied to a barrel or while being in use on the barrel. In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a sheet metal barrel :0 hoop embodying one form of my invention. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary side elevation of the same, on an enlarged scale, showing the joint between the overlapping ends of the hoop. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section taken in line 33, Fig. 2. Figs. 4 and 5 are fragmentary longitudinal sections of the detached end portions of the hoop. Fig. 6 is a transverse section taken in line 6-6, Fig. 2. Fig. 7 is a fragmentary side elevation of the overlap 80 ping ends of a hoop showing a modified construction of the same. Fig. is a transverse section taken in line 8-8, Fig. 7.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several 85 views. I

1 represents the body of the hoop which is made of a strip of suitable metal such as sheet steel and which has its ends 2, 3 overlapping one another lengthwise of the hoop.

60 These overlapping ends are interlocked by my improved fastening or joint so that they are held against pulling lengthwise apart as well as being displaced laterally relatively to each other. The means for connecting these ends of the hoop so as to hold the same against pulling apart in the direction of their length comprises one or more lips, tongues, hooks or ofl'set portions 4 which are formed in the ends portions of the hoop. and are adapted to interlock with each other. Although the number of interlocking pairs of these lips may be varied to suit the size of the hoop and the strain to which the same is liable to be subjected the drawings show three rows of such pairs of lips arranged Specification of Letters Patent.

Application flied May 29, 1915. Serial No. 31,164.

BARREL-HOOP.

Patented Nov. 7, 1916.

parallel in the directionof the length of the loop and the several pairs of lips staggered relatively to each other, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Each of the lips is stamped laterally out of the metal stock in one end of the hoop so that thelip is arranged lengthwise thereof and connected integrally at its inner or rear end or base with the body of the hoop while'its outer or front end or head is atranged-on one side of the body, thereby forming a forwardly facing shoulder 5 at the front end of the lip and a rearwardly facing shoulder 6 on the adjacent part of the body of the hoop, said front and rear shoulders formed by thus deflectingor offsetting the metal being arranged transversely in line, as

shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 5. The front end of each lip 1s preferably offset from the body of the hoop a distance equal to the thickness of 1 the hoop, as shown in Figs. 8, 4 and 5.

In the assembled or overlapping position of the ends of the hoop each lip of one hoop end engages with or lies with its outer side against the inner side of a lip on the other hoop end, so as to form apair therewith, and when thus assembled the inner lip of each pair bears with its front end against the rearwardly facing shoulder of the outer hoop end which is arranged adjacent to the front end of the companion outer lip of the outer hoop end, as shown in Fig. 3. The two cooperating lips of both hoop ends therefore project lengthwise of the hoop in the same direction circumferentially of the hoop as a whole, but when considering these lips separately one of them faces with its front end away from the correspondingextremity of the hoop body while the companion lip of the other hoop end faces with its front end toward the corresponding extremity of the hoop body. An abrupt or square shoulder is provided on each hoop end which engages with a corresponding shoulder on the other hoop end which shoulders are perpendicular to the length of the hoop and thereby serve to' form a positive and reliable interlock or joint between these hoop ends which securely hold the same again st pulling apart in a direction lengthwise of the hoop. By employing a plurality of such interlocking pairs of lips, as shown in the drawings, a very strong and durable joint is produced between the hoop ends which is not liable to open up under the severest strains to which the same may be subjected. For conven- 7 may be provided for instance, as shown in Figs. 1-5, this is effected by a plurality of rivets which are formed integrally from the stock or body of the metal hoop by punching integral eyelets 7, 8 transversely from the overlapping portions of the hoop, so that an outer eyelet 7 is formed on one of the hoop ends and an inner eyelet 8 on the other hoop end, the inner eyelet passing through the outer eyelet and the free ends of both eyelets being upset against each other and against the adjacent part of the and hold the hoop ends against transverse hoop, so that they are securely interlocked separation.

Instead of employing integral eyelets for this purpose the means shown in Figs. 7 and 8 may be employed. In the last mentioned construction the upper and lower edges of the overlapping end portions of the hoop are provided with longitudinal flanges 9, 10 which are folded transversely of the hoop over one another, thereby producing a clencher joint between these hoop ends which serve to prevent lateral displacement of these hoop ends relatively to each other and also by their frictional engagement with each other aid in resisting any tendency to pull apart the hoop ends in a direction lengthwise of the hoop.

The joint between the ends of the hoop is preferably produced by overlapping these ends and then forming the several pairs of cooperating lips on the same by pressing the metal of each pair of lips laterally simultaneously with a punch or forming tool, thereby expediting the formation of this joint and reducing the cost accordingly.

This means of joining the ends of the hoop is extremelysi'mple and inexpensive in construction and avoids the necessity of using separate rivets or other fastening devices for this purpose, thereby materially reducing the cost of the barrel on which the same are employed.

I claim as my invention:

A barrel hoop constructed of. a strip of sheet metal having its ends overlapping and united by means which comprise cooperating lips projecting laterally fromthe ends of said strip and each lip being struck from the stock of said strip so that the rear end of the lip is attached to the strip while its front end is deflected from the side of the lip and forms a forwardly facing edge on the lip and a rearwardly facing edge on the strip adjacent to the front end of the lip, and said lips lying against each other with the forwardly facing edge of the lip in one of said strip ends engaging throughout its Width with the rearwardly facing edge of the other strip end.

EDWIN F. BEUGLER. 

